15 FEBRUARY 1873, Page 3

It is evident that the prosecutions of the priests and

the Bishop accused of intimidation in the Galway election will all fail. The strongest case was against Father Loftus, who used intimidating language if ever any man did, and the jury could not agree even in his case, so that it had to be dismissed. In the case of Dr. Duggan, the Bishop of Clonfert, there is, in our opinion., hardly any evidence of which even an English jury would take notice, and as Father Loftus's case is certainly much the strongest, we may fairly assume that all the prosecutions will fail.